Hierarchy
EA-APPL (Software Component) SAP Enterprise Extension PLM, SCM, Financials⤷
SD-BIL-IV-SBI (Application Component) Self-Billing Proced.⤷
VASB (Package) Application Development R/3 Sales / Self-Billing Process
Basic Data
| Data Element | TMOFFSET |
| Short Description | Time Offset to Alter the Date Limit |
Data Type
| Category of Dictionary Type | D | Domain |
| Type of Object Referenced | No Information | |
| Domain / Name of Reference Type | BEGINTIME | |
| Data Type | TIMS | Time field (hhmmss), stored as char(6) |
| Length | 6 | |
| Decimal Places | 0 | |
| Output Length | 8 | |
| Value Table |
Further Characteristics
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| Change document | ||
| No Input History | ||
| Basic direction is set to LTR | ||
| No BIDI Filtering |
Field Label
| Length | Field Label | |
| Short | 10 | TimeOffset |
| Medium | 15 | Time Offset |
| Long | 20 | Time Offset |
| Heading | 0 |
Documentation
Definition
Postpones the 00:00:00 date limit by the time interval entered, if the transmission number is derived from the date of transmission.
Use
If the external transmission number is derived from the date of the IDoc, it does not make sense to have a change date of 00:00:00, because IDocs that belong together logically (IDocs resulting from one transmission) should be grouped under one transmission number.
The time interval entered here is added to the date/time of IDoc creation. The change date is therefore artificially postponed.
The new date per IDoc is now used to derive the transmission number.
Procedure
Examples
You define a time interval (offset) of 12:00:00 (12 hours).
IDocs, for which an external number is to be derived in the verification step, are created at the times shown in the following overview. The dates derived and the consequent generated transmission numbers are as follows:
IDoc# Created at After offset added Derived transm. no. 0001 01.10.1999 09:00:00 01.10.1999 21:00:00 19991001 (=> 01.10.) 0002 01.10.1999 11:50:00 01.10.1999 23:50:00 19991001 (=> 01.10.) 0003 01.10.1999 12:10:00 02.10.1999 00:10:00 19991002 (=> 02.10.) 0004 01.10.1999 18:00:00 02.10.1999 06:00:00 19991002 (=> 02.10.) 0005 02.10.1999 03:15:00 02.10.1999 15:15:00 19991002 (=> 02.10.)
In this example, all IDocs whose date/time of creation lies between 01.10.1999/12:00:00 and 02.10.1999/11:59:59, are logically assigned a creation date of 02.10.1999, and consequently the transmission number 02101999.
It makes sense to use this procedure if transmissions often arrive overnight, without externally assigned transmission numbers. The normal date change time of midnight then determines their transmission number.
Please note that this procedure was set up with test cases in mind. EDI partners normally specify their transmission numbers.
Dependencies
History
| Last changed by/on | SAP | 20030411 |
| SAP Release Created in |
